Presented on October 8, 1997 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1997 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series.
Andrew Hoffman, of Brown University, is the author of the recently published Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997). Professor Hoffman presented a paper entitled "Mark Twain's Last Deception" at the Late Mark Twain panel of the quadrennial "State of Mark Twain Studies" conference held in August 1997 at Elmira College.